David Lambert Lack, Lack David

Darwin's Finches

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

David Lack's 1947 classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's Finches) is here reprinted.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780521272421
• ISBN-10: 0521272424
• Artikelnr.: 27256885

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Description: 1. Galapagos scene
2. Classification
3. Ecology
4. Female plumage
5. Male plumage and sexual selection
6. Beak differences and food
7. Size differences between island forms
8. Size differences between species
9. Individual variation
10. Hybridisation
11. An evolutionary tree
Part II. Interpretation: 12. The origin of the Galapagos fauna
13. The origin of subspecies
14. The origin of species
15. The persistence of species
16. Adaptive radiation
Summary
Acknowledgements
Tables of measurements
References
Indexes.